ess of thought and feeling, and to
keep you in spite of everything, that ever can be against you, in His
perfect will and peace, the struggle is practically over. Beloved, do you
really know and believe that this is the very promise of the Gospel, the
very essence of the new covenant, that Christ pledges Himself to put His
law in your heart, and to cause you to walk in His statutes, and to keep
His judgments and do them? Do you know that this is the oath which He
sware unto Abraham, that He would grant unto us. "That we being delivered
from the hands of our enemies, and from all that hate us, might serve Him
without fear, in righteousness and holiness before Him all the days of our
life." He has sworn to do this for you, and He is faithful, that promised.
Trust Him ever.

MARCH 18.

"Neither shall any plague come near thy dwelling" (Ps. xci. 10).

We know what it is to be fireproof, to be waterproof: but it is a greater
thing to be proof against sin. It is possible to be so filled with the
Spirit and presence of Jesus that all the shafts of the enemy glance off
our heavenly armor; that all the burrs and thistles which grow on the
wayside fail to stick to our heavenly robes; that all the noxious vapors
of the pit disappear before the warm breath of the Holy Ghost, and we walk
with a charmed life even through the valley of the shadow of death. The
red hot iron repels the water that touches it, and the fingers that would
trifle with it: and, if we are on fire with the Holy Ghost, Satan will
keep his fingers off us, and the cold water that he pours over us will
roll off and leave us unharmed: "for He that was begotten of God keepeth
us, and that wicked one toucheth us not."

It is said that before going into a malarious region, it is well to
fortify the system with nourishing food. So we should be fed and filled by
the life of Christ in such a way that the evil does not really touch our
life.

MARCH 19.

"Launch out into the deep" (Luke v. 4).

Many difficulties and perplexities in connection with our Christian life
might be best settled by a simple and bold decision of our will to go
forward with the light we have and leave the speculations and theories
that we cannot decide for further settlement. What we need is to act, and
to act with the best light we have, and as we step out into the present
duty and full obedience, many things will be made plain which it is no use
waiting to decide.

Bel